Explores the political dilemmas of the Civil War: the status of slavery and race in the American founding, the tension between morality and constitutionalism, a

Professor Mendle situates each of Parker's significant tracts in its polemical, intellectual, and political context.

From James I's Address Before Parliament (1610) to Joseph R. Biden, Jr.'s Learned Hand Dinner Address Before the American Jewish Committee (2005), this two-volu

The Civil War is often credited with giving birth to the modern American state. The demands of warfare led to the centralization of business and industry and to

Passionate political disagreement is as old as the American Republic, and the antebellum era—the thirty years before the Civil War—was as rife with partisan